Vésuve-class gunbrig

The Vésuve class was a class of seven 4-gun gunbrigs (bricks-canonniers).

The Royal Navy captured three of the seven vessels in the class and took them into British service.

Vésuve class (7 ships)

 * Vésuve
 * Builder:
 * Begun: February 1793
 * Launched: May 1793
 * Completed: June 1793
 * Fate: Captured by HMS Melampus (1785) and HMS Hebe on 3 July 1795. Commissioned in the Royal Navy as HMS Vesuve, sold in 1802


 * Volage
 * Builder: Lemarchand, Saint-Malo
 * Begun: March 1793
 * Launched: May 1793
 * Completed: June 1793
 * Fate: Captured in 1803 by boats from HMS Loire; sold in 1807


 * Cruelle
 * Builder:
 * Begun:
 * Launched:
 * Completed:
 * Fate:
 * Notes:


 * Foudre
 * Builder: Saint Malo
 * Begun: 1793
 * Launched: January 1794
 * Completed: February 1794
 * Fate: Struck in Saint Valéry en Caux in December 1798
 * Notes: Renamed Fantôme in May 1795


 * Hargneuse
 * Builder: Saint Malo
 * Begun: 1792
 * Launched: September 1793
 * Completed: September 1793
 * Fate: Decommissioned in Brest in February 1810
 * Notes: renamed Canonnière n°14 in May 1801


 * Protectrice
 * Builder: Saint Malo
 * Begun: March 1793
 * Launched: August 1793
 * Completed: September 1793
 * Fate: Decommissioned on 31 March 1807
 * Notes:


 * FRENCH BRIG Vaillante
 * Builder: Saint Malo
 * Begun: 1793
 * Launched: 1793
 * Completed: June 1793
 * Fate: Ran aground in combat against Lapwing, then destroyed by gunfire on 29 November 1796